The Department of Biomedical Engineering at McCormick is consistently ranked among the top biomedical engineering programs in the country. With cutting-edge research in neural engineering, cardiovascular and pulmonary engineering, materials and tissues, and imaging and biophotonics, the department attracts top faculty and graduate students alike. Students in the program study engineering, life sciences, and mathematics while participating in revolutionary research.
The biomedical engineering community at Northwestern University is centered in the biomedical engineering department and includes faculty appointed in 12 departments (at last count) within engineering, medicine, arts and sciences, and communication. The breadth of faculty members’ research interests affords students a wide variety of research opportunities. Research takes place on the main campus in Evanston and on the medical school campus in downtown Chicago.
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